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Yes, I know, most of you have probably left floppies behind in the dust, but they're still handy for some small quickie things. Here's the question. Floppy disks have a limited lifespan, of course (though I suppose everything does), and eventually at some point as it starts to decay, it's …

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I have a Compaq Evo SSF D500 P. 4 with 1.7 mhz. I want to install a Compaq 72.8 gb 10k rpm ultra 320 scsi Hdd pn: 232431-003 model no. BD07264546. Need advise as to whether this hd can be connected to my 68 pin controller (adaptec 29160n) with a …

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Hi iv got a SATA 500GB internal HDD in my PC and when ever i start up my PC it will keep changing the storage size thats free.for example when i finish using my PC i have around 10GB left when i restart it the next day or if the …

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I had a hard drive disappear from bios and no boot. I got hold of a PClinuxOS2009 CD image and it works as an operating system from the read only CD Download and burn for free. Use a non rewritable disk!!! I booted from it and set to and had …

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in my bios, the hd is recognized but it says optical disk: none. i just installed a new hd and set my bios to load cd rom first and then hd, so i could install windows on it. but it skips the cd and goes straight to hd, which doesnt …

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can anyone tell me which sample data to use for prefetching techniques in parallel file system? also how to implement testbed for it..

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I am working on a GT5656. The system was downgraded from Vist to xp. When the tech performed th downgrade, he first deleted all partitions. Now the owner wants to restore Vista, so I ordered the disks from Gateway. During the restore I get Gateway Error 0x2001100200001005. I assume that …

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Hi and I have the below php-gtk script but for some reason it is reporting the error "Not enough storage is available to process this command." in the command console but the application still loads. It only happens when I try to import a 1.75MB text file for processing. Does …

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I just got a new CPU, installed drive from old CPU into the machine and it shows up on disk management, but not in 'MY COMPUTER'. I have no access to all my old information there. Old drive is FAT32, new drive is NTFS, both are already formated. Any suggestions?

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Plagued by duplicate files that clog up your system? Quantum, a company once known mainly for hard drives, yesterday unveiled a new version of its [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StorNext_File_System]StorNext File System[/url] that it says optimizes storage efficiency by implementing automatic data deduplication. It's part of StorNext 4.0, Quantum's high-performance sharing and data management …

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Users of GoogleDocs will soon have reason to celebrate. Google this week announced in a [url=http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2010/01/upload-and-store-your-files-in-cloud.html]blog post[/url] that its free online document collaboration platform will soon store files of all file types, rather than just those it can edit (plus PDFs). To understand the significance of this news, you'll first …

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LSI, three letters that are probably etched on nearly every hard drive controller you've ever owned, as of yesterday emblazon 10 more controllers of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Attached_SCSI]SAS[/url], [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA]SATA[/url] and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive]SSD[/url] storage devices. On Jan. 19, [url=http://lsi.com/]the company[/url] unveiled a series of new RAID controllers and host bus adapters that double the bandwidth …

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Ok, i snapped of little usb port on the hard drive so now, i can't attach a usb cable to it. I tried opening up the hard drive and thought i could connect it to my computer using SATA cables, but however it doesn't seem to have any place i …

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Hello, I am having a problem burning a cd using the built in drive in my laptop. I am receiving the following error message. "Cd copier could not detect any supported cd recorders. Please ensure your cd-recorder is properly connected. If the problem persists, please re-install Easy Cd Creator". I …

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I have a dell ins 1501 recently upgraded to 320 gb hard drive. used the old hard drive to load windows xp on so I can use some older programs that I have. Problem is that my laptop won't boot the xp system. Tells me I have a fatal error. …

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I have a dell ins 1501 recently upgraded to 320 gb hard drive. used the old hard drive to load windows xp on so I can use some older programs that I have. Problem is that my laptop won't boot the xp system. Tells me I have a fatal error. …

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Flash drive will not allow me to access, reformat, or label it. When I plugged it into my XP machine it tried to format it with windows media player and now on my Vista machine it won't allow me to do anything. Will I have to go back onto my …

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any body have the WIFI WEP cracker, or how to crack WIFI WEP security.

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I have a Compaq Armada M700 laptop (Windows XP) with one usb port in the back of the computer. If I plug my external HDD (Toshiba 160 gig) into it directly, it will work perfectly fine, no problems. However, I also have a Wacom tablet which I'd like to be …

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I have a sony vaio laptop and i want to disable S.M.A.R.T. the only problem is it wont let me disable it through BIOS. there is no option. Do i have any other possible solutions? Thanks.

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Hi i am unable to install visual studio 2008 from a DVD. If i put in the DVD my computer hangs and when i check the CPU usage it goes up to 50% and stays there and i cant even eject the DVD. my only option is to restart the …

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what is sata pipeline? is it a new technology or jus a series and is it from seagate only or from other manufacturer as well? if its a new tech what is the different between it and the normal one?

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my laptop hard disk does not open for the operating system to even load that the hard disk has been locked can u help me

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Hi! Basically, what I'm trying to do is a site for online storage of my own files, like Microsofts SkyDrive service. One thing I'm wondering about is what way that would be most effective to organize the files? My first thought was that when I upload the files to the …

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I am getting repeated HDD error reported by the RAID systems. I am getting the HDDs replaced via warranty but this is happening too frequently tht I am thinking that something else is wrong. I have had about 5 HHDs failures in the last 4 weeks. As soon as I …

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hi all due to a problem with my BIOS on my p4 sadly iam going to have to format my harddrive but before i do i want to transfer data from my xp pro hard drive on to my 2000 pro hard drive , they are both NTFS file system. …

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I had recently purchased a new computer that has SATA drives controlled from an onboard controller (ASUS board - not sure of the model). My previous computer had EIDE HDDs, and the mother board failed on that machine. I wanted to bring over an EIDE drive (Baracuda 7200) that is …

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I have a Toshiba Satellite A55 laptop, which I used for 2 years without any problems. Last month the system began slowing to a crawl and then either freezing up or crashing completely. Hard drive was making all sorts of scratching noises, and one time I got the error message …

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I'm feeling a bit foolish right now. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish: I'm replacing my current HD with a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9. I got it in the mail, took the old C drive out and replaced it with the Max. Of course it gave me a "Boot Disk …

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